#FOAMed

Day one at #smaccUS did not disappoint. An amazing musical start to the day followed by an intense plenary session with some of the luminaries of the #FOAMed movement.

The St.Emlyn's team (well some of them) are currently at the greatest conference in the world. If you don't know about Social Media and Critical Care Conference then seriously you must have been living under a rock.

By the time you've worked in the Emergency Department for more than a week it's highly likely you'll have seen a patient who has a bit of a sore neck after a relatively minor bump in their car. A little less often we see patients presenting with a fixed torticollis, their head held over to one side with pain associated with attempts to return it to a normal position.

We have looked at therapeutic hypothermia not once, not twice, but three times already here at St Emlyn's; most of our ED consultants also work, at least some of the time, down the long corridor in our paediatric ED - so our interest in how we can best look after our post-cardiac arrest patients extends to children as well.

We love a bit of meta-cognition here at St.Emlyn's. As time passes and we all become a little longer in the tooth it becomes increasingly apparent that it's not just 'what' we know it's how we use it.